Top 10 Software Angel Investors in Croatia in October 2023
Top 10 Software Angel Investors in Croatia in October 2023
| Investor | Software Croatia investments |
|---|---|
| Luca Ascani | 6 |
| Taavet Hinrikus | 5 |
| David Rowan | 2 |
| Igor Anić | 1 |
| Hrvoje Zlatar | 1 |
| Preetha Parthasarathy | 1 |
| Ivan Topčić | 1 |
| Nenad Bakić | 1 |
| Marko Kovac | 1 |
| Esther Dyson | 1 |
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Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
- Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
- Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
- Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
- Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the David Rowan is Editor of the WIRED UK, the technology and trends magazine covering online brands, gadgets and the culture that surrounds them. David has reported on technology for The Times and Channel 4 News, the latter requiring him to illustrate the newiPod Video from the set of a porn shoot. He's also written for The Sunday Times and Telegraph Magazines, and edited the Guardian's on-line content. David has curated an exhibition of British creative talent at the Government's Cabinet Forum conference. He has also addressed the TEDs, and frequently contributes on Newsnight and the Today programme. He also writes a monthly column for GQ. David is in touch with many of the world's leading trend-setters and spotters. In presentations he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why 'social commerce' is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change your market in the next decade - and what you should be doing now to protect yourself.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Croatia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- EWOR — Build a successful company with EWOR
- Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
- Rhizocore Technologies — We develop high-performance strains of locally-sourced mycorrhizal fungi to improve tree growth, tree health and tree resiliency. We offer a sustainable solution to increase forest yields whilst improving the ability of trees to sequester carbon.
Igor Anić
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- Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure
- Pre-Seed
- Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Mantil — Serverless development kit for Go and AWS Lambda
Hrvoje Zlatar
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- Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure
- Pre-Seed
- Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Mantil — Serverless development kit for Go and AWS Lambda
US, India. Preetha Parthasarathy is the Partner at SAP.iO . Preetha Parthasarathy attended Texas McCombs School of Business.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Developer Tools
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Deepgram — Power your apps with speech recognition (ASR) and domain-specific language models (DSLMs). Effortlessly accurate. Blazing fast. Enterprise scale. Best price.
- Wasp — A simple language for developing full-stack web apps with less code.
- Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
Ivan Topčić
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- Robotics, Software, Machine Learning
- Series A
- Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Gideon Brothers — Gideon Brothers develops autonomous, mobile, collaborative and modular robots for unstructured, indoor, human industrial environments. They are one of the largest robotics engineering companies in Central and Southeastern Europe. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia.
Nenad Bakić
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- Robotics, Software, Machine Learning
- Series A
- Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Gideon Brothers — Gideon Brothers develops autonomous, mobile, collaborative and modular robots for unstructured, indoor, human industrial environments. They are one of the largest robotics engineering companies in Central and Southeastern Europe. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia.
Marko Kovac is the Founder and Chief Product Strategist at Repsly
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- Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Infrastructure
- Pre-Seed
- Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- Mantil — Serverless development kit for Go and AWS Lambda
Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville
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- Health Care, Medical, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- Boxhub — Buy new & used shipping containers with Boxhub. We make buying a shipping container easy & deliver it right to your door. Buy a storage container today!
- Way — Way is a mindful eating app that replaces restrictive diets.
- Humanity — Slow down, or even, reverse your aging.
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